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Close Encounters

Documentary

Most accounts of UFO sightings can be explained by and attributed to normal earthly phenomena. Those that cannot be solved, however, have police investigators, government officials and researchers puzzled, even decades later in some cases. In each episode of "Close Encounters," two stories of alien phenomena around the world are investigated, re-created and reviewed by researchers. In the telling of each one, the program reveals to viewers facts about thousands of reported occurrences.

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Close Encounters Schools Out and Christmas Lights

Students in Australia witness a saucer-shaped object touch down; a man's car and cell phone stop working when a cigar-shaped object passes overhead.

10:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining

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Close Encounters Fire in the Sky/Arizona Objects

Several dozen witnesses in Pennsylvania reported seeing a fiery object fall through the sky and land in nearby woods; hundreds of people stargazing in Phoenix, Arizona witness strange lights flying in a V-formation.

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Close Encounters Blind Date and Flying House

A teen views a mushroom-shaped object that leaves a glowing ring on the ground; police officers witness a large triangular object.

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Close Encounters Second Coming and Space Rock

Three people encounter a craft and later suffer radiation poisoning symptons; a metallic object that blasts off when touched.

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Close Encounters Blind Date and Flying House

A teen views a mushroom-shaped object that leaves a glowing ring on the ground; police officers witness a large triangular object.

1:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining

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Close Encounters Second Coming and Space Rock

Three people encounter a craft and later suffer radiation poisoning symptons; a metallic object that blasts off when touched.

1:30 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining

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Close Encounters Northern Lights/Faded Giant

Cousins Billy and John Smith encounter a massive ship triple the size of a football stadium; guards at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana spot an unidentified object overhead.

2:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining

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Close Encounters Fire in the Sky/Arizona Objects

Several dozen witnesses in Pennsylvania reported seeing a fiery object fall through the sky and land in nearby woods; hundreds of people stargazing in Phoenix, Arizona witness strange lights flying in a V-formation.

2:30 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining

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Close Encounters Second Coming and Space Rock

Three people encounter a craft and later suffer radiation poisoning symptons; a metallic object that blasts off when touched.

3:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining

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Close Encounters Sky High and Crash Course

A Japanese air crew encounters blinding lights; a sheriff's car is engulfed by a beam of light.

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